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1. (linguistics) Encloses morphophonemic transcription.

   Synonyms: | |, ‖ ‖, { }

   We can write la{t,d}er for the conflated pronunciation of ladder and latter in American English. This may instead be written ⫽laDer⫽, where ⫽D⫽ is the archiphoneme {t, d}, or with both conventions for {laDer}.

2. (linguistics) Encloses diaphonemic transcription.

   Synonyms: \ \, | |, ! !

   Coordinate terms: / /, [ ], ⟨ ⟩, ⸢ ⸣